V.A. officials said the system is fully committed to serving its patients, insisting that no patients were affected by the cuts and that all savings would be reinvested in veterans.

They’re going to try and throw vets into normal healthcare, let them charge crazy prices, say the VA can’t afford to exist, and then give vets insurance that has all the same drawbacks as every other insurance company.

The VA is the largest healthcare provider in the country, there’s a shit ton in savings by having one entity providing services than having a middle man who only cares about profit.

Just because you make an argument, doesn’t make it true

Mate…

I “made an arguement” that it wasn’t just Nazis that did this …

And used an example of people who were not Nazis doing it to show that …

And you accused me of saying both groups are the same.

After I literally said:

Obviously the people saying “Luigi was right” and the Nazis are different.

You felt the need to say almost verbatim the same thing back to me like it was something I didn’t know.

There’s not an easier way to explain this, I’m sorry but I’m not helping you anymore.

Obviously not, which doesn’t matter because the behavior isn’t unique to either group:

It’s not even a Nazi thing, it’s a human thing.

I thought that by stating that nice and clear in the beginning would prevent confusions like yours, but I forgot some people read something and instantly forget it.

.world defeterated with a couple of other instances accusing them of being tankies

Worth pointing out that those were very few who had little activity, and they’re still federated with lemmy.ml despite a pretty big portion of users not wanting that.

To make it sound like .world is missing a large volume of posts is just disingenuous

public service

Republicans have t thought of government officials like that for decades, they view the politicians they vote for as their boss.

Someone who tells them what to do/think, and they align their values to trump

Neoliberals have spent 30 years trying to get Dems to think the same way, where instead of a politician working for their voters and then being accountable to them, they want voters to work for them and never question their stances. They want us to be like Republicans and take the stances of our politicians instead.

The thing is there are very real and very noticable differences in the brains between conservatives and liberals, what works on Republican voters just won’t win enough liberal voters for that strategy to work.

The only reason it worked in 2020 was people gave Biden the benefit of the doubt.

But lots of Dem voters never got over Biden saying that anyone who thought he could accomplish anything with simple House and Senate majorities were ignorant of American politics. After the reason we got the 50/50 split was the entire nation donating in the runoffs so we could get it.

So while I agree, its important to point out neither side has been nominating politicians who view themselves as public servants for a very very long time.

It’s insane to me

How?

This isn’t the first time, won’t be the last time.

It’s not even a Nazi thing, it’s a human thing.

Reddit said you can’t say “Luigi had a good idea” so idiots try to find the furtherest they can take it without repurcussions, and when they face repurcossions they screech that their free speech was violated because they were dog whistling to advocate for murder

So people get banned from reddit for it, and come here and they’re *still stuck on trying to find the line in every situation so they can put their toes on and screech “freeze speech” like teenagers playing the penis game.

Obviously the people saying “Luigi was right” and the Nazis are different.

But it’s the exact same human instinct to push boundaries and see what they can get away with, then claim innocence when faced with consequences. Little kids do it constantly, and with our education system lacking on critical thinking since No Child Left Behind, people aren’t learning the critical thinking to internally make the call on what’s ok, they just try shit and see if there’s negative consequences. That’s all that matters: can I get away with saying this.

We just saw it on a national stage where trump kept talking about tarrifs on Canada, he wanted them to engage in a bad faith conversation about fentanyl while his tarrifs were active and free of consequences. Instead Trudeau finally ovaried up and hit back with retaliatory tariffs.

trump got consequences and he’ll stop. But if there wasn’t he’d have kept pushing it.

Green protested proposed Medicaid cuts, warning “people will suffer and die” if the program is cut.

If mainstream media gave a shit this is what they would have been saying the whole time.

American taxpayers will suffer and die because of this.

Don’t even try to explain the numbers to conservatives, just make it clear that if it resulted in them getting more money somehow, it would be literal blood money.

But once you start that argument, it applies to all of America’s healthcare system, and mainstream media wants to (at best) maintain the status quo.

So instead they treat it as a math problem and ignore the human suffering

Yeah, one of the rare episodes with a lot of Bullock in it.

I dunno if it’s because they can only afford so much of Sir Patrick Stewart’s time, or if he just doesn’t want to do a lot

But I’m still amazed every season he’s still doing the voice.

Man, actually kind of sad to add you to the block list…

But there’s not time for this bullshit and getting hung up wasting time explaining things to people that can’t understand.

I hope you come around, but I’ll never know

Everyone has a finite amount of fucks at any given moment.

The article is worth the 2 minute read because it accurately and concisely explains why the claim is bullshit.

And I had no idea the SC justices sat with Dems…

Like, all of them, even the ones appointed by trump. I had seen the clip Barret looking shitty at trump, but all of them sitting with Dems is something I’m choosing to be optimistic about.

Their seats are for life and Dems have proven they don’t have the balls to kick them out. So now the threat to their power is trump, if he’s kept in check they maintain status quo and their personal power for 30-40 years, probably longer.

If trump does a full takeover, they’re essentially rendered powerless because they wouldn’t be able to disagree with him, and their cooperation would be taken for granted because at that point trump would replace them.

So like I said, everyone has finite fucks.

Use them to find silver linings sometimes. Shits gonna get worse but we need hope if people are gonna fight. Dont do what James Carville says and stick your head in the sand. Do what Ken Martin is doing and look for the best places to fight

Literal days after the October attacks…

He said that calling for the destruction of Israel was overboard…

That’s too much?

Let’s switch gears here

If Ken Martin is not the furtherest left DNC chair we’ve had in 30 years, by all means name drop who you think it was.

LMAO.

The fact that one comment during an interview, during the campaign where he had to get elected by the voting members of the DNC is the only thing out of decades of politics that people can latch onto to call this guy a neoliberal just makes me all the more confident.

Saying “no, there are no good billionaires” in response to that question would have prevented him from ever becoming chair…

Like, bro gave a bullshit wiffle waffle answer to a gotcha question, and that’s seriously the worst anyone can say about him?

Like, just the fact that’s all the dirt that can be dug up over his long history with the party is enough for me to say he’s the furthest left chair in decades.

My favorites example tho is when he camped out overnight with pro-Gaza protestors who were protesting the DNC so he could ensure their right to protest was protected and police wouldn’t hassle them.

did these MFers get background checked by the FBI?

There’s literally a year grace period before it needs completed. Like I said:

You could make the argument that they need security interviews, but due to systemic backlogs with those, the deadline is a year after they start working.

What’s funny is with timestamps we can see the proof was posted before your insult…

California deserves someone that represents them for once, not another neoliberal who will always move as far right as they can get away with.

Actually valid…

“Merely asserting that the Treasury DOGE Team’s operations increase the risk of a catastrophic data breach or public disclosure of sensitive information … is not sufficient to support a preliminary injunction,” she wrote.

SSNs just aren’t a big deal in government accounting, they’re literally unavoidable and everywhere.

You could make the argument that they need security interviews, but due to systemic backlogs with those, the deadline is a year after they start working.

It’s clearly a bad idea and there is very likely to be a catastrophic data breach…

But this is one of those parts of the system that operates under good faith. So legally we have to assume that these idiot teenagers are no different than any other employee.

The one possible legal avenue is ironically enough their age.

Age discrimination regulations are a one way street. If over 40 no one can use your age against you. But if your 39 years old someone can say “you’re too young to do this job”.

And these fucks are averaging almost 20 years under 40…

So while normally I’d be talking about how bullshit that distinction here is, it’s pretty stupid we’re refusing to use that tool.

Yeah, moving from one fund to another is untaxed, it’s like a 401k, but what the feds and military have. So your mileage may vary.

But 401ks are basically the same, various different funds you can park your money in with varying levels of rates of return.

One is almost always just stuff like 30 year government certificates, so it will always give ~1% rate of return. Then a couple more where the fund gets more volatile.

So in a normal economy people carry a mix (or automated mix) that starts out incredibly risky, and as you get closer to retirement becomes more conservative with lower risk and lower rates of return.

But if you think shit is going to go south, you change funds to mitigate risk. If the risky funds bottom out, it’s possible to “buy back in” when it’s lower than what it was when you changed because it’s based on “shares” in the overall fund. Then when the market eventually normalizes, the shares would be worth about the same as before the crash, but you now have a lot more shares.

So basically I just shortsold the entire US economy.

Disclaimer:

Doing this late at either move can cost you money too.

I pulled all my retirement out of the market and into the low interest long term securities index.

I’ll move them back before midterms when the market is still low.

I was too young for it to effect me back then, but I remember what the 08 crash did to peoples retirement accounts.

I’d hope so…

Ignoring the obvious isn’t helping anything, other countries pretending trump was normal last time is a large reason why he even ran again this time, let alone won.

Dude has a literal golden goat… That’s would be a pretty big coincidence.

Don’t forget his first Christian supporters was the Evangelicalists. People who got so tired of waiting for the apocalypse they decided to help it along to get to the rapture.

That’s what’s up with the Israel support as well, it’s supposed to start there, and it’s supposed to be a “Jewish Kingdom”.

That and the antichrist coming to power are the two big things, it’s not implausible they think trump is the actual antichrist, understand how terrible he is, but want to give him ultimate power to hasten judgement day

It’s not rational, but there’s logic to it.